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[Android Apps and Games] Loader009:
It did work for a few days (3 days?).

So I think it is indeed something on 500px's side that might be broken or have broken in this app.

Chainfire stated that he won't develop this app anymore because 500px made him trouble with this app. Any development for this app might be worthless next week or next month or even later. That's why he don't want to do anything, too much trouble for a simple app.
[Android Apps and Games] yada-yada:
Another good alternative seems to be Muzei + 500px AdvancedConfig For Muzei. It can replicate most features of 500 Firepaper - I even assigned Nova Launcher gestures to open both apps from the homescreen.

Oddly enough even though 500px AdvancedConfig For Muzei shows it hasn't been updated since 2014, it still works for me.
[Android Apps and Games] swapnildixit3:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] - please help us with fixing this issue. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] paatha13:
Totally agree.

A little explanation to clarify the situation would be helpful for all of us.

500firepaper was all that years my favorite app on android far away from anything else on Android.
[Android Apps and Games] sohebq:
Photo paper looks fine to me. Is there a way it will only change Home screen wallpaper?
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Things stopped working on the same day I left for vacation. I returned yesterday and I'm looking at what is going on. It seems 500 Firepaper is currently being rate-limited (in other words, can only download X pictures in Y time).

I am not yet sure if this rate limiting is per-IP (more or less per device), per-API-key (all 500 Firepaper users together), or perhaps even a shadowban (500px servers saying we are being rate-limited, but having no intent to ever give us pictures again).

Rate limiting by itself is no surprise, there are more than a few 500 Firepaper users and altogether I don't doubt we generate massive amounts of traffic for 500px. I just hope the problem can be worked around. I don't think we can count on the 500px guys themselves to be any help, though.
[Android Apps and Games] swapnildixit3:
Thanks for update but then how can other app like Photo Paper are managing? Are they using any workaround?
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
That is impossible to answer. The rate limiting is server side, we have no details on how it is implemented.

It might have something to do with how 500 Firepaper batches the image downloads (to reduce total battery drain and allow Wi-Fi connection to pre-cache images for when you are on mobile data or without connection completely), or it might not. It might be because 500 Firepaper downloads more images in total (users * images-per-day) than Photo Paper. It might be because they don't like us. It might be none of the above... It's all just guesswork at this point.

I am running some tests that over the course of the next few days might present me with a solution. However, if it is an API-key-wide rate limiter, it's going to be difficult to solve.
[Android Apps and Games] Rom:
Thanks for your clarification.

About the traffic that we generate, i think that it could a nice idea to ask the 500px support about that.

For me its curious that they apply an break to theirs servers now. There is no ten of new users that begin to use 500px API keys per months i think.

Could u ask the support about that when u will have few minutes please ?

Thanks :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Loader009:
How about an option for a user-API-key for advanced user?

Or is it more complicated to acquire a API key as a non-developer?
[Android Apps and Games] paatha13:
[APP][4.0+] 500 Firepaper v2.70

Yes I’ve try this and works fine.

But sadly I don’t have an option of gesture for changing image wallpaper like I had that option with 500firepaper.

But from zero point and totally broken 500firepaper and limited feature of google wallpaper photo paper is acceptable and fine.

It would be nice if manage to find a proper and full working all time proper solution.

Hope for positive feedback.
[Android Apps and Games] fmatosqg:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] do you know if the problem is on the image download or some url discovery or whatever rest service you probably use (since I never used this app I'm trying an educated guess of how it works)?

In case it's a problem in the rest side of things pls have a look at hage tee tee pee amazingdomain dot net (please spaces and do the HTTP typing from url manually, I'm newbie at xda and can't post ursl) .

and in case it helps you be my guest. Though it caches for 2h to reduce load on 500px side, that may be better than nothing.

That's what I use to power my own wallpaper app. It's not a big server, so pls let me know if you plan putting a big load there.
[Android Apps and Games] An Droid:
Well, FWIW, I'm using 500 FirePaper on 3 devices and have configured them all for a longer image display time as well as lower image cache min./max. values.

Still working fine for me, for now.

Sent from my ZTE Axon 7
[Android Apps and Games] squiddog:
I can't see how to enable it as my wallpaper... there is no "Set Wallpaper" option that I can see. Anyone else seeing this?

Looking forward to firepaper being fixed, still the best.
[Android Apps and Games] Zolack:
Request limit

Maybe I found an answer to the limit?

github.com/500px/api-documentation#is-there-a-request-rate-limit

(Sorry for the non-clickable link but I'm limited cause i still need to make 10 posts on xda :P)

EDIT-

I have a suggestion (idk if it's possible)

Can't we just make our own api key and use it with your app? Then it would be impossible for 500px to block all the keys from all the users
[Android Apps and Games] clevebb:
The "answer" you find is just a question. 500px didn't reply to that user. Also, that was a year ago.
[Android Apps and Games] Arfyness:
Yes Please!

I vote for this!

It is SUPER EASY to get an API key.

Chainfire: This is my most-used of your apps, thank you for looking into it.

Much of your other work certainly is essential for my Android experience, no denying that!
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Well what do you know, someone from 500px actually got back to me.

The API key is currently blocked due to excessive bandwidth usage. I think we set a new record...

A custom API key is not going to happen, that would be a **** move on my part, abusing their bandwidth.
[Android Apps and Games] paatha13:
Seems that john background switcher being totally fixed with newer version that came out today and we can take advantage of 500px services just like before the latest broke up.:)

https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/johns-background-switcher-4-16-release-notes/
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
I've had a talk with a tech at 500px, and I'm going to implement a different image caching strategy. This will take some time to get done, as it will be quite a bit of (virtually unpaid) work, I have an enormous amount of other updates to do, and we'll have to wait and see if that reduces bandwidth usage enough that they can cope with the load. Otherwise the app will be re-banned anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] Azeazezar:
Considering it is a bandwidth issue, maybe you could enable it for just the pro users? I feel like we payed for our bandwidth.
[Android Apps and Games] pkelly517:
Well, the cause is known.

The solution may or not be as easy to figure out.
[Android Apps and Games] :
For those of us who use pro version of your app, can't you provide a way to login to our 500px account and use our api-key like "Photo Paper" app ??

I know you've already answered to this, but you can keep a limitation to how much bandwidth we get to use even on a end-user based api-key.

Besides, this way it becomes more of a responsibility on user side from getting blocked by 500px than on your side.

One last question, are you checking the dimensions of pictures internally? Is there anyway to get only high definition pictures just like the landscape/portrait feature?
[Android Apps and Games] Loader009:
I think that any way of passing by 500px's restrictions is meant by **** move.

I respect that Chainfire keeps respecting others like 500px. I will donate (again, I already paid for pro) just because you are trying to solve that problem, already investing time, which (as you say) is actually unpaid.

Hopefully it will work, otherwise... other apps until they get banned?
[Android Apps and Games] pkelly517:
I have zero real information as to how the API works. But [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] warned a good deal ago that it may die at any time. I respect that statement.

Since it appears that it's a bandwidth issue, maybe Firepaper can be limited to X number of categories. Maybe it can only update a certain number of pictures a day.

I'd prefer a limited Firepaper than a useless version.

Maybe 500px just decided that our little app wasn't giving them the cash they needed. Who knows?
[Android Apps and Games] violin.siva:
Wallpapers are not loading suddenly. Still black screen. Tried all methods to rectify. I am using this app for more than a year no issues yet like this. What can I do?
[Android Apps and Games] miloytyn:
You could read few previous messages in this thread.
[Android Apps and Games] andynx1:
Read the last ~10 posts?
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
New update rolling out, please read the release notes here:

https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/HQKjKofS9qF
[Android Apps and Games] Infy_AsiX:
it's a good surprise that 500px was somewhat helpful this time and made an allowance to help too. Hopefully this works out, if not at least we know they don't completely hate us and another fix is somewhat possible :cyclops:
[Android Apps and Games] paatha13:
[APP][4.0+] 500 Firepaper v2.80

Just installed it.

Seems working fine after latest weeks being totally broken.

Hope continue working free of issue all time.

Thanks for your efforts.
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Well it definitely helped I found an engineer to help us this time. Previous communications were with business people, and you know how useful those are...
[Android Apps and Games] ZeRoZeRoRaZ:
Hey [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]

On my phone I have option:

Only download (and cache) new images when connected to Wi-Fi (or ethernet)

But I don't have one on my Mi Box (Android TV) and daydream is not showing anything except message that I have to be connected through WiFi - but I'm on Ethernet.

Any chance for fix/update?
[Android Apps and Games] cpasoft:
Thank you Chainfire... Working on my two devices...

I'm glad to get firepaper back again!!!...

I will donate again!

:good:
[Android Apps and Games] murphdsurf:
Chainfire, YOU ARE THE MAN! Thank you for your hard work. After the update everything works again!

Tom Murphy
[Android Apps and Games] Rom:
Thanks you again

I have read your g+ post update and i have understand what u want to mean.

Thank u very muche for your works and for this update :good:

Seriously between your root solution and your app we should pay u a coffe at each months ! :p:highfive:

Thanks again :o
[Android Apps and Games] Loader009:
Each of us, so he has never have to sleep... and sometimes pizza, so the alltime programmer formula works out.
[Android Apps and Games] bjtcars:
So happy you have it working again. Nothing out there that's as good!
[Android Apps and Games] Robsonmeg39@gmail.com:
Stopped working again even after new update

Sorted it again have to un install and then reinstall to get it to work.
[Android Apps and Games] cpasoft:
I've set the update interval to 24h, but the photo is changing more than three times during the same day, don't know why...

Anyone have this issue as well?

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[Android Apps and Games] rcobourn:
Photo expired, perhaps.
[Android Apps and Games] cpasoft:
Expired??

What do you mean with expired?? The images have expiration time??

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[Android Apps and Games] rcobourn:
They can only be kept in cache for a limited time, as I understand it.
[Android Apps and Games] cpasoft:
Oh!, so I'd must to lower the cache size for correcting this issue??

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[Android Apps and Games] rcobourn:
That should help, I think.
[Android Apps and Games] cpasoft:
Thank you, my friend.

I let you know if this works...

;)

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[Android Apps and Games] squiddog:
Its back baby! Thanks [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]!
[Android Apps and Games] cpasoft:
Well, definitely lower the cache did the trick!

Thanks for your help!!

The Firepaper it's working great!!! Thanks to [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] for this marvellous peace of soft!

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[Android Apps and Games] overclockthesun:
Well i just installed this on my rn3 running mcaosp 8.0. 500 firepaper cannot open the link to the wallpaper configuration part of system settings. I don't know why I can't get it to run. Maybe oreo is too new?
[Android Apps and Games] rcobourn:
I don't think it matters, just open wall paper config manually and select 500 Firepaper.
[Android Apps and Games] miloytyn:
It cannot be because of Oreo, since that works just fine on my Pixel XL.
[Android Apps and Games] overclockthesun:
It must be the rom itself or the gapps I used. I went. From. Aosp to nitrogen is and it worked.
[Android Apps and Games] DeathHorizon:
Not bad

There are really beautiful wallpapers in this app. But it crashed once :( Anyway, now it works and pleases me
[Android Apps and Games] vkmu521:
Where I download 500firepaper
[Android Apps and Games] zohar_ml:
Google play store
[Android Apps and Games] Loader009:
Did you ever googled or even tried to search for it?
[Android Apps and Games] freskile:
Same issue here with Android 7.1.2, LG Optimus G.
[Android Apps and Games] NOWE:
Since my Honor 9 updated to Oreo parallax effect isn't working anymore. ?
[Android Apps and Games] sohebq:
Is this app still fully working for others??? It only downloaded a few images and keep on repeating them.

On the other hand, photo paper is also not working.
[Android Apps and Games] Loader009:
Kind of working for me.

Parallax works on oreo.

It happens that pictures are the same for days but later some new appear. 500px "problem", nothing Chainfire can do about afair.
[Android Apps and Games] paatha13:
[APP][4.0+] 500 Firepaper v2.80

I did noticed also that picture being the same more days than before last 2-3 weeks and refreshing new one is much less offering.

Parallax is working fine with all my device so far except Huawei.

Huawei phone have issues with that probably stupid EMIU restriction.
[Android Apps and Games] halfsoul:
I have been having an issue where 500 Firepaper gets "forgotten" as the wallpaper and it reverts to a default static wallpaper (the purple mountains one).

I have to occasionally set the wallpaper again to 500 Firepaper.

Anyone else?

Has happened on both Nexus 6P and Pixel 2 XL.

Using Nova Launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] lssong99:
Just got this email.... Does this means nobody will be able to use 500px API!

API Update

Shutting down API access

Hi there,

In January, we removed public access to our API. 500px has always fostered creativity with technology, but due to shifting business priorities, we’ve now decided to shut down the API completely. This decision is part of a larger strategic shift—focusing our energy on continuing to build the world’s best photography community at 500px.com, as well as strengthening our asset protection and improving our site’s performance.

As of June 15, we’ll be shutting down all access to the API, which means you will no longer be able to use it to pull images or data.

Questions? Feel free to email help@500px.com.

Thanks,

The 500px Team
[Android Apps and Games] rcobourn:
I wouldn't say it means nobody, it means nobody besides their own developers. :(
[Android Apps and Games] mkhopper:
I hope this doesn't mean the end for this application. Maybe it can be re-branded and reconfigured to pull from other sources other than 500px?

I've tried other wallpaper auto-switchers, but none can even come close to this one in terms of features, stability and ease of use.
[Android Apps and Games] miloytyn:
I totally agree with this. 500 Firepaper is by far the best wallpaper app I have tried.
[Android Apps and Games] appleby2:
This is very sad, take action!

I've been using this app for a long time and it's a fantastic and outstanding wallpaper app in comparison with the hundreds of "ususal" boring wallpaper apps.

A few years ago there has already been a conflict between 500px and Chainfire posing a threat to the existence of the 500 Firepaper app.

This has been mediated by adding watermarks at that time.

So this current move seems to be in a tradition. But I still very much hope that 500px will restrain from this drastic and aggressive move against their own user base.

I do not understand why they don't instead provide a wallpaper feature in their own 500px app and built addtional features on top of that in order to integrate with the goals of their new strategy.

I'll right away mail to help.500px.com and encourage anyone to do the same.
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
500 Firepaper updated to v3.00, switching out 500px API for Reddit's /r/EarthPorn

Release notes here: https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/W52tb4kp8zN
[Android Apps and Games] Planet X:
Thank you so much for your support. Now also the ugly 500px ads below have been gone for good ?
[Android Apps and Games] OGhoul:
I've used 500 Firepaper since I first tried out Android (One M7) and 500 Fp was a major reason I come back from iOS now and again.

I want to personally thank you for keeping my homescreens beautified all these years, and for throwing us a bone by getting it to pull images from a new source. I at least appreciate it. :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] tristanstewart:
definitely surprised to see an update to this. that's cool it'll last a little longer now.

is the previous apk anywhere? i wouldnt mind squeezing a few more days out of the 500px library
[Android Apps and Games] Costy88031:
Hello guys

When first installed this application I was able to choose what type of images to be shown, now after few days I can't choose that anymore. Simply the option is not there at all. Tried to uninstall and reinstall the aplication but with no luck
[Android Apps and Games] rcobourn:
Go back and read the last few posts.
[Android Apps and Games] jpzsports:
Love the app and thankful for the update to keep it working! My only issue is that despite my settings set to change the wallpaper every 24 hours, it seems to be changing them every few minutes.

EDIT: Since rebooting, it appears this is no longer an issue!
[Android Apps and Games] squiddog:
I agree with all the others, this app is one of few that have remained on my phone for years. Thanks for all the years of development and support.

I have a couple suggestions for the new version.

- Allow selection of any subreddit, not just earth porn

- Allow selection of any folder stored on phone with option to include subfolders, to randomly display photos from.

With this 2nd option I thought it would be easy to find an app for this in the Play Store - and while there are a few to choose from, none of them have the quality or reliability that 500 Firepaper does.

Thanks,

Dave
[Android Apps and Games] saccentekennedy:
+1 for all of this!
[Android Apps and Games] HippieFlasher:
Looks like I get to keep my 500px cached files, yay!

First off, thank you Chainfire for all your great dev work, and for 500Firepaper in particular. I was quite disappointed when I heard that 500px was killing their API, and I chose to keep version 2.80 rather than update to 3.0 to keep categories. I figured that if v2.80 truly died on the 15th I would update when forced to, but the most awesome thing seems to have happened. I am still able to keep my cached images even after more than 24 hours (I had the max cache bumped up to 512 pics). So although I won't be getting new images, I still have over 400 cached. I'm super stoked on it, but of course if you ever implement a new source with categories I will update and check it out. Thanks Chainfire, you rock brother!
[Android Apps and Games] OGhoul:
Wow. Just... wow.
[Android Apps and Games] mistermojorizin:
Is it still working for you? I was doing the same as you and it just stopped working. It'll load a picture from cache, then a few seconds later it'll rever to the default picture.
[Android Apps and Games] tristanstewart:
same here. i hoped that it would just show me what i had cached, but nope...
[Android Apps and Games] HippieFlasher:
It still seems to be working okay for me.

Edit: Now it isn't. Not sure why, but mine has started having the same problem. If I find a fix I'll let you guys know.
[Android Apps and Games] coolmmp:
look like good...but i think my phone down

hey..nice

but i think my phone become slow..

so for now i got a good app in play store cm wallpaper.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cmwallpaper.hd
[Android Apps and Games] subhani:
Is anyone else having trouble getting wallpapers to scroll? I have it enabled in the app and also in my launcher. But it refuses to scroll.

I have a Huawei P20 Pro. Using Nova.
[Android Apps and Games] Loader009:
Scrolling works here, although the images are kinda the same over a longer time.

A side effect of some older patch because of 500p's restrictions earlier?
[Android Apps and Games] subhani:
Right. So I can't get scrolling to work on my P20 Pro using Nova. If I set other wallpapers, it scrolls fine. But certain apps, this being one of them, it doesn't scroll.

I can get it to work by somehow trying to use the default stock launcher to force it to scroll first and then after many jammy attempts, it scrolls in Nova too.

And yes. I noticed that the images are a very small selection of the same ones. Just cycling through on repeat.
[Android Apps and Games] ArcherCX:
Chainfire, thank you for your work! I like this App very much!

But I'm still missing 500px, so I'm trying to develop an App which will crawl pictures from 500px and set as wallpaper . Then I found 500px's api still works, but you need to get token from 500px html source code first and make a request with the token and cookie .

So I am wondering will you make 500 Firepaper work with 500px again or not consider it may cause the copyright problem and the api is no longer official.
[Android Apps and Games] subhani:
Nevermind... Scrolling is working again.
[Android Apps and Games] darklenre:
Hello! Thanks for the update, there's no way i'm switching to another wallpaper app after all this time. Do you have any plans to let us add more subreddits? Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] caeter:
Feature request

I like to have the option to change the subreddit.

I'd like to use /r/spaceporn/ for example.
[Android Apps and Games] andronikal659:
Can you add big time overlay for daydream or option for notifications? Similar to lucid day dream app... Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] DragonFire1024:
I've been able to edit the Android framework-res, and have original stock live wallpaper picker so I've been able to activate Daydream and add live wallpapers on the Amazon Fire HD 10. Thanks to my little hacks, '500 firepapers' works perfectly and the wallpapers are amazing!
[Android Apps and Games] WarriorMax:
Can u share ur work here? I love 500 firepaper.

---------- Post added at 02:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

That would be awesome if chainfire could do it. Earthborn is not good. This is the only wallpaper app ever.
[Android Apps and Games] DragonFire1024:
What do you mean? I can post a link or two where I activated the screensaver.